Sentences with phrase «of weaker film»

«As we have been saying for some time, we feel the recent box office has been typical in nature and the result of weaker film product,» said Jacob.

There were effective ideas here, but they never really take off, and the film's potential is squandered on a poorly written script, and the end result is one of the weakest films in the franchise.

One of the weakest films to be nominated for the Best Picture Oscar, this biopic of Edna Gladney is uncharacteristically poorly scripted by Anita Loos and poorly helmed by Mervyn LeRoy.

As an early winner of the Best Picture Oscar, Cavalcade is one of the weaker films to hold a place in film history books.

Directed by The Taking Of Deborah Logan's Adam Robitel, Insidious: The Last Key is one of the weakest films to come out of Wan's genre factory, reducing the producer's formula of creepy houses, jump scares, and derivative horror imagery to its least interesting essentials.

Kevin Costner continues his streak of weak films, Ashton Kutcher does little to justify him being taken seriously, and director Andrew Davis further feels like a one - hit wonder who lucked out in The Fugitive.

It's not a coincidence that without Payne's prints on the screenplay that Nebraska is one of his weaker films.

One of the weakest films to be ever nominated for the Best Picture Oscar, «Blossoms in the Dust» is a dull biopic of Edna Gladney, founder of an orphanage in Texas» Fort Worth.

Not exact matches

In this sense, the film suffers from the inverse problem of most Marvel films — its first act is a bit weak, but the back half sings.

Depending on the films and sets of messages included in the analysis, the correlation might look stronger or weaker.

Transient thermal protection of film covering circular aperture by sublimation and weak decomposition

I felt like he was kind of whiny, and came off as uncharacteristically weak throughout the film.

Wright shares an anecdote about how she had to be suspended from cables during filming of The Princess Bride because the famously strong Andre was too weak to catch her.

It will shear the weak bonds that keep the molecules of plastic sticking together but it will not break the plastic molecules themselves — that is, the bowling ball breaking the plastic film does not generate enough heat to set the plastic on fire.

The ability to accurately measure tiny displacements of microscopic bodies has applications in sensing trace amounts of hazardous biological or chemical agents, perfecting the movement of miniature robots, accurately deploying airbags and detecting extremely weak sound waves traveling through thin films.

NOTHING to do with a Hollywood film - making process, technicolour takes us back to the beginning of the universe, when two of the fundamental forces of nature, electromagnetism and the weak force (which governs particle decay within the atomic nucleus), were united in a single force — the electroweak force.

Portrayals of smoking in kid - oriented movies tend to be less than realistic and are probably a weaker influence on tween and teen behavior than smoking in films geared toward older audiences, Sargent says.

On the other hand, this is one of Werner Herzog's weakest films and none of the characters are very likable.

Whilst not the worst film tie - in, Fantastic 4 still feels heavily watered down and certainly comes across as a weaker version of «X-Men Legends.»

Harrelson received the film's only acting nomination for his work as Larry, but I think he provides the weakest performance of the leads.

Yet it's telling that the film is at its weakest when it departs from the general story thread of the novel to galavant through end notes and family trees.

The script is one of the film's weakest areas, with scriptwriter David Franzoni shying away from anything too daring or innovative.

The sweetness of the first stories seems now entirely gone, with this one adopting a much more serious tone, and Yates manages to condense the longest (and weakest) book into a decent film even if it feels more like a transition chapter between the fourth and sixth chapters.

The weakest of the first three films of the series.

This belated second sequel to The Three Musketeers is a rather slapdash, uneven patchwork of weak writing and sloppily directed set pieces that fails to recreate the magic of the previous films.

Dorff is stellar and the film builds some tension but a bit too much required suspension of disbelief, some plot holes, weak dialogue, and two increasingly silly twist endings ultimately sink the piece.

I don't exactly mean it as an insult to compare America Wedding to Return of the Jedi because, like its Star Wars counterpart, this film is weak on its own but works in context.

In the end the third film is a weak attempt to recapture the heart and comedy of the first two films.

The directing is also weak, and has trouble keeping a consistent tone, yet Melissa Etheridge provides a strong theme song («In Roxy's Eyes») that captures the spirit of film.

The film also minimizes the utter endgame uselessness of the Hallows, which seemed such a weak and frustrating plot device in the book.

The story is weak and predictable, the pace is fast and rushed but the mood of this film is the reason to watch it.

Such skillful execution is enough to overcome some of the film's weaker aspects.

But early fears of a weak crop of films proved unfounded.

Certainly one of Spielberg's weaker films.

Cutting Class like a few horror films of the 80's relies heavily on an overused idea, and by the films release in 1989, The slasher flicks were getting weaker.

Despite the pedigree of the actors, this is the weakest segment of a film that strives to be a heartfelt ode to the things we leave behind, and how those things impact our lives.

The film's intent was presumably satirical in the vein of «Catch - 22» or «M * A * S * H,» but the satire is so weak, the action so devoid of comic perspective, that we are left with a naked gaggle of ugly episodes.

(GREAT VILLIAN, Mr.Hoffman) It has the intelligence of the first (the second best film after Fargo in 1996), and the action is almost as good as ghost protocol, the 2nd mission impossible is the weakest, (it is enjoyable

Most of this expository stuff, however, serves as a weak excuse for the film's performers to have some fun acting like idiots, and there's no doubt that Old School has its fair share of inspired gags, most of them revolving around former SNL standout Ferrell.

(GREAT VILLIAN, Mr.Hoffman) It has the intelligence of the first (the second best film after Fargo in 1996), and the action is almost as good as ghost protocol, the 2nd mission impossible is the weakest, (it is enjoyable even with all the flaws tho).

The weak link is Steve Zahn who's straight laced screenwriter character grates making him a dreadful lead considering most of the film follows him.

The first hour of the film was excellent but the climax was pretty weak (sinfully teasing at an epic airplane fleet battle that never takes place) and the closing epilogue narration felt extremely rushed (also contains a gimmicky «The end?»

Decent film that definitely could have been reworked a bit before getting the green light, Insurrection is one of the weaker entries in the Star Trek franchise

I also had the misfortune of experiencing the new film version of «Les Misérables», which fails to hide the weaker aspects of the source material and, with the exception of a single sequence, never brings any imagination to the screen adaptation.

The film seems stuck in a back and forth between melodrama and weak - willed irreverence, trying desperately to contrive the natural disorientation of Marji's childhood.

Ambushers is generally regarded as the weakest of the Helm films, lacking inspiration at most levels.

Yes: «Of all the studios tracked in this report, Walt Disney Studios has the weakest historical record when it comes to LGBT - inclusive films.

It is easily the weakest of the stories and the link that drags down the entire film.

If There Will Be Blood doesn't quite match the achievement of these hallowed titles of American film, it is for a weak link here or there, and for a tendency toward over-the-top emoting.

One of the weaker MCU films and essentially a vehicle for some mindboggling special effects (Inception x ∞), with a typical origin story.